"There is a guy who does a lot of work to help the fediverse and to push people toward it. His name is Donald Trump."
"There is a guy who does a lot of work to help the fediverse and to push people toward it. His name is Donald Trump."
The numbers: 1014 events, 1186 speakers, 66 track/devrooms
"Don't skip the food queue but let staff and volunteers do it."
And if the room is full, or if you are remote: https://fosdem.org/schedule/streaming/
"FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI", talk by Michiel Leenaars "We need to talk about war"'
Because not everything at #FOSDEM can be fun.
[FOSS = Free / Open Source Software. AI = generating funny answers to stupid questions]
The growth of the Internet and of free software was during a time of [relative] peace and hope, after the end of the cold war [in Europe]. It was ideal and we forgot about war, dictatorship and other nasty things.
Then, we moved to hyperscalers/ GAFAM
"Cloud first strategy" means you're proud of your incompetence.
And with deliberate attacks (think supply-chain), free software is in the battleground.
And we are not ready for that.